Civil rights vs. Palestinian- Israeli conflict
Palestine was independent until the year 1914 within the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire. After that the Ottoman Empire entered World War I alongside the Germans, the Ottoman Empire lost all its territory in the Arab countries for the benefit of Britain and France. Years after Britain signed a bill to the Israelis and granted them Palestine. The Israelis claim that Palestine is their promise land from God, so they formed a movement called Zionist to attack the Palestinian civilians and plunder their land. Until now war is still on in Palestine between both the Palestinian civilians and the Israeli army. Similarly in the United States of America African Americans were discriminated against by White Americans. Civil Right activist went through tough times to reach equality and peace. It took many failures and sacrifices to get the freedom they deserve. As Martin Luther king, Jr., a Civil Right leader who fought for equality and justice for all Americans says in his “Letter from a
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Birmingham jail,” “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed”(King). Palestinians have been trying to create change through the same means as the Civil Rights Movement, but they have not been successful. The Israeli- Palestinian conflict cannot be changed by the same means as the Civil Rights Movement because Palestinians Fail to protest for freedom, have unity issues, and face foreign interference supporting the Israelis. Palestinians have been protesting non- violently and violently for their independences for many years, but it hasn’t been effective.
When people of color protested for equality in the Civil Rights Movement, they were given attention. Instead of having their commands answer, the Palestinians get shunned and killed when ever they try to express themselves. Edward R. Crowther in his “Civil Rights Movement” article says, “Many participants were arrested for disorderly conduct and trespassing. A few were beaten” (Crowther). That shows that even though the government was a bit harsh with some of the Civil Rights activist, they were not treated as badly as the Palestinians. A total average of thousands killed protesting for freedom in Palestine everyday. Life full Men, women, and children civilians march peacefully in hope to obtain freedom in their land; to find the Zionist army prepared to kill them with no
mercy. The Palestinians are missing unity; many Palestinians had to emigrate out of their country after Israelis took their land. When Israelis occupied Palestine, they kicked many civilians out of their homes and forced them out the country. Even if Palestinians had a chance of freedom from Israel their small number will prevent them from succeeding. The few Palestinians living in Palestine will have a weak effect in getting the change they want. Through the civil rights movement many African Americans and other discriminated races were united, and they used to march out in huge numbers. Their huge number was an essential in the success of the movement. All Civil Rights activist lived in America unlike Palestinians who are scattered all around. The external interference from other countries supporting the Israeli army against Palestinians makes it impossible for Palestinians to get justice through the same means as the Civil Rights Movement. According to Shirl McArthur a consultant based in the Washington, DC area “the total U.S. direct aid to Israel is $123,202 billion” which means that billions of dollars was spent toward the Zionist occupation against the innocent Palestinians civilians. However, during the Civil Rights Movement there was no external interference in both sides. Neither, African Americans nor white people had outside support during the movement. Oppressed people cannot live their lives oppressed forever. The urge for freedom will eventually come. No matter the struggles and sacrifices people have to go through, every human deserve to live in freedom and dignity (king). Even though, both conflicts arose for equality and independence, the influencing factors were very different. The Palestinian Israeli conflict cannot be resolved by the same means as the Civil Rights Movement. Unlike the Civil Right Movement when Palestinians try to protest for their rights, they get killed. Palestinian lack unity, and with the external support for the Israelis their adversary is impossible to defeat. Word Count: 722
Imperialism, Colonialism, and war had a huge impact on the Middle East, and it can also be thought of as the source of conflict. According to the map in Document A, it shows that the size of the Ottoman Empire grew smaller after the first world war, along with this change came new boundaries. These borders were created by the victorious European countries that won World War I, and made different ethnic and religious groups separated and grouped together with others. Great Britain's took over Palestine mandate and developed the Balfour Declaration that promised Jews support in making a home in Palestine. Most of the Palestine land was populated with Arabs. As soon as Jewish immigration increased, so did the tension between the two groups because each felt like they deserved the Palestine land. Zionism began early in the history of Judiasm and it was the movement for the Jews to establish a home in Palestine, and return to their holy land. During the Holocaust, six million Jews were killed and the deep-seeded hatre against them increased
“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. ”(Lyndon Johnson). For generations in the United States, ethnic minorities have been discriminated against and denied fair opportunity and equal rights. In the beginning there was slavery, and thereafter came an era of racism which directly impacted millions of minorities lives. This period called Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system up until the mid 1960s.
The Israeli-Palestine conflict is an event that has been well documented throughout the course of Middle-Eastern history. The conflict dates back as far as the nineteenth century where Palestine and Zionist, will later be known as Israel, are two communities each with different ideologies had the same overwhelming desire to acquire land. However, what makes this clash what it is, is the fact that both of these up and coming communities are after the same piece of land. The lengths that both sides went to in order obtain they believed was theirs has shaped the current relationship between the two nations today.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a constant struggle between the Arab and Jewish population about the established state Israel.The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going on for many years, there have been a variety of options that could potentially help solve this conflict. However, the options that may be provided may not be agreeable. With each solution both sides have questioned the security of the borders, and protection for both the Arab and Jewish population. There have been many attempts to settle the conflict and so far all of the attempts have failed. In this paper I will argue that the Segal's Two-State and One-homeland solution can solve the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Prior to and after WWI the world saw a rise in nationalistic sentiments. The Middle East was not immune to this new ideology. Although Arab Nationalism had a start in the Ottoman Empire, its rise among the masses did not begin until after WWI. While a total rise in Arab Nationalism became apparent on the Arabian Peninsula, a separate nationalist movement began in Palestine as a way to combat a unique and repressive situation. In Palestine the British mandate, along with British support, and the world's support for Zionist immigration into Palestine, caused a number of European Zionists to move into the country. These factors created an agitated atmosphere among Palestinians. Although there was more than one factor in creating a Palestinian-centered Arab Nationalism, the mounting Zionist immigration was among the most prevalent of forces.
The tension between Arabs and Israeli people has been caused by both sides wanting control and power while attempting to prove their superiority over the other. This conflict is a struggle between the Jewish state of Israel and the Arabs of the Middle East. This conflict has included several wars between Israel and certain Arab countries that are opposed to Israel 's existence. The Arab-Israeli tension began prior to the colonization of the British; however the tension grew when the United Kingdom attempted to assisted during World War I. After the war finished the UK left and war broke out between the Arabs and the Jews.
Most of our conflicts with Muslims is rooted from a manifestation of hatred for the United States' support of Israel. The resentment and hatred are widespread throughout the Arab countries such as Iraq, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria which are experiencing less freedom, high unemployment, oppressive governments, and overpopulation unlike Israel. As Zaharia puts it "For all its flaws, out of the same desert Israel has created a functioning democracy, a modern society with an increasingly high technology, economy and thriving artistic and cultural life"(27). Before Israel became a state in 1948, Arabs were being displaced by Jews in 1920 when "the purchase of land by Jewish agencies angered the indigenous Palestinians, especially tenant farmers, who had been evicted to make room for settlers" (Bulliet 772). Even though this does not directly involve the United States, it does involve the British, because Palestine was a British man...
The ongoing and explosive Israeli-Palestinian conflict has its roots in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century when two major nationalist movements among the Jews and Arabs were born. Both of these groups’ movements were geared toward attaining sovereignty for their people in the Middle East, where they each had historical and religious ties to the land that lies between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Toward the end of the 19th century, Southern Syria (Palestine) was divided into two regions, inhabited primarily by Arab Muslims, and ruled by the Turkish Ottoman Empire (BBC News). At this time, most of the Jews worldwide lived predominantly in eastern and central Europe. When the Zionist political movement was established in 1887 and began to fund land purchases in the Ottoman Empire controlled region of Palestine, tensions between the two groups arose. Since then, Israel and Palestine have been vying for control of this land that they both covet, and this conflict remains as one of the world’s major sources of instability today, involving many different players. One of these players who continues to halt the peace process, is a militant fundamentalist Islamic organization called Hamas. Hamas has intensified extreme opposition and bloodshed in the region, with the aim of destroying the state of Israel. However, few people know that starting in the mid 1970s, Israel secretly supported an organization that would later emerge as Hamas, even though both groups had competing future visions for the nation. Why did it choose to do this when it had so much at stake? This paper will address the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict leading up to the beginning of Israeli support of Hama...
Most of the Palestinians entered into an era of living under Israeli occupation after losing most of the territory of their hopeful state. But the war was also the rebirth of the Palestinian identity. The PLO started an armed struggle that was supported by the majority of Palestinians. The “liberation” of their land, done legally or not, was supported by the most Palestinians and was important to help create a Palestinian national identity. Those Israelis and settlers that tried to push towards greater Israel in the expense of the Palestinians were those that helped to unite the Palestinians that threated it the
own side for signing a deal which he had decided in 1974 not to sign
Since the inception of an Israeli nation-state in 1948, violence and conflict has played a major role in Israel’s brief history. In the Sixty-One year’s Israel has been a recognized nation-state, they have fought in 6 interstate wars, 2 civil wars, and over 144 dyadic militarized interstate disputes (MIDs) with some display of military force against other states (Maoz 5). Israel has been involved in constant conflict throughout the past half century. Israel’s tension against other states within the Middle East has spurred vast economic, social, and political unity that has fostered a sense of nationalism and unity in Israel not seen in most other states. Over the next several pages I will try and dissect the reasons for why the nation state of Israel has been emerged in constant conflict and how this conflict has helped foster national unity and identity among the people of Israel.
After World War II the British gave Palestine to the United Nations, in 1947 the UN resolved to “partition the country into two states. Roughly 57% of Palestine would become a Jewish state while 43% was to be a Palestinian Arab state.” The Palestinians rejected the plan in support that the Arab league declared the partition illegal. There was a lot of violence in Palestine during this time...
The Palestinian refugee issue has its origins in the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the eruption of the Arab-Israeli war that accompanied this. During this period, some three-quarters of a million Palestinians left their homes within what was to become the state of Israel to seek refuge in the (Jordanian controlled) West Bank, the (Egyptian-controlled) Gaza Strip, Syria, Lebanon and further afield. When Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza in June 1967, a further 300,000 fled these areas for neighboring countries. (Brynan, 1998, p. )
The most significant number of Palestinians immigrants came to the United States in the years of 1800 and 1920. They left Palestine for many reasons. Most of them came to seek better job opportunities. Their culture background and experience makes the Arab ethnic group very different. Most early Arab immigrants around the late 19th century were from Lebanon, and Syria and were mostly Christian. Most Arabs left for different reasons. Some listened to Arab leaders’ call to get out of the way of the advancing armies, many were expelled, yet most of them fled so they would not be caught in the middle of the war and many left because of the war.”Had Arabs accepted the 1947 United Nations resolution not a single Palestinian would have become a refugee and an independent Arab state would exist besides ...
The conflict began to surface after the Ottoman was finally defeated. Britain gained control and promised the Arabs independence as soon as Palestine was able to get back on their feet and rule again. “ The British promised the Palestinian Arabs independence” 2Their reason for that was to thank them for helping Britain defeat the Turks. Even though Britain Promised the Palestinian’s their independence, they were unaware of their hidden agenda. They had already made the same promise to the Jews. Britain’s foreign secretary Balfour drafted the Balfaur Declaration. In 1917 “ He promised the Jewish people their homeland” 3 Now there were two sets of promises made to different groups to conquer the same country.